Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
John Odell collection
Collection — Folder S1026
Identifier: S1026
Scope and Contents
This collection includes John Odell's school workbook containing his compositions, poems, mathematical equations, and expenses (circa1855 to 1860). The book was re-used as a scrapbook and has news clippings attached to the pages regarding the U.S. Civil War and other items of interest to Mr. Odell (circa1860-1886). One item of note is a clipping of an address he gave during a June 20, 1860 debate on the question of popular sovereignty in the territories.
Dates:
1855-1886
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Odell collection
John Rugenstein collection
Collection
Identifier: L300
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials assembled by John Rugenstein regarding the presidential campaign of Wendell Willkie. Included in this collection is campaign memorabilia such as buttons, literature, poetry, postcards, music, stickers and phonograph records. Also included is the correspondence of the various state and local Willkie Clubs, founded in 1940 to promote and support Willkie in his campaign. These items are divided geographically. There is information on the national (Associated of...
Dates:
1879-1959
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Rugenstein collection
John Tenbrook Campbell collection
Collection
Identifier: L258
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the writings of John TenBrook Campbell ranging from 1840 to 1909 and undated. They include a family history, papers relating to temperance, emancipation, and theology, poems, reports, surveys, and items related to other miscellaneous topics. Included in the collection are personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts sent to editors, and a photograph of John T. Campbell.
Dates:
1840-1909, undated
Joseph I. Byrum papers
Collection — Folder S205
Identifier: S0205
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed copy from Joseph I. Byrum, Sr. in South Norfolk, Virginia in 1944 regarding poetry about Indiana.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Joseph I. Byrum papers
Josie Hunt Wiley Brower papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2827
Scope and Contents
This collection includes newspaper clippings, invitations, brochures, letters, photographs and a hair collection ranging from 1847 to 1944 regarding everyday life and church events.
There is also a broadside regarding the sale of real estate in Wayne County in the 19th century (OBC040).
There is also a broadside regarding the sale of real estate in Wayne County in the 19th century (OBC040).
Dates:
1847-1944, undated
June Winona Snyder collection
Collection — Folder S1218
Identifier: S1218
Scope and Contents
This is an eight-page typed speech by June Winona Snyder given to the Indiana Poetry Federation on October 9, 1943. She mentions holding a convention during World War II in the face of "gas shortages, traveling limitations, long hours at war work." Ms. Snyder gives advice to poetry writers. On page 7, she wrote: "Do not be disturbed if someone criticizes you for spending your time writing poetry in these war times. You are doing a very patriotic duty when you strive to keep your vision clear so...
Dates:
1943
J.W. Ferran letter and poem
Collection — Folder S3116
Identifier: S3116
Scope and Contents
The collection is a New Year’s poem contained in a January 1811 letter from J. W. Ferran of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Elihu Stout of Vincennes, Indiana. The text of the letter is a one sentence introduction to Ferran’s poem.
Dates:
1811/01
Kate Milner Rabb collection
Collection — Folder S1092
Identifier: S1092
Scope and Contents
This collection has includes three items, all of which are undated. A printed form on yellow paper is entitled, "List of Questions," with "188__" at the bottom. On the back, handwritten in pencil, it says: "Used by Miss Eubank of Guilford, Ind., in getting information in regard to soldiers of War of 1812.The second paper is a letter on Indianapolis Star letterhead, handwritten by Kate Milner Rabb, to "Dear Mrs. Livesey." Kate thanks Mrs. Livesey "for the use of this...
Dates:
undated
Kathaleen Johnson Carter papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0234
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of typed and autographed documents from Esther Stanton Hampton Woodward in Florida between 1953 and 1967 regarding poetry about her late husband, Col Stanley Woodward; a photocopy of a typed document by Anna M. Votaw, undated, regarding Andrew Hampton; a photocopy of a typed diary by Sarah Ann Hampton Johnson, in Indiana, ranging from 1851 to 1882, regarding personal matters; and a photocopy of a typed and autographed diary by Jane Moon Hampton, in Indiana,...
Dates:
1851-1967, undated
Katherine Ballard collection
Collection
Identifier: L007
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters, poems, receipts, invitations, and legal documents from Katherine Ballard in Indiana ranging from 1827 to 1930. Correspondents include family members, including her son who is part of the 158th Indiana Regiment during the Spanish-American War (1898), as well as various families from Montgomery County.
Dates:
1827-1930
